# Amazon SES, pay as you go: Email verification API

> API validation allows you to validate individual email addresses through API calls, providing immediate feedback about address validity, deliverability, and risk factors. This feature is designed for validating addresses at the point of collection, such as during user registration, subscription forms, or any other scenario where you need timely validation results.

Amazon SES's email verification API on its À la carte pricing plan. It costs $10.00 per 1,000 emails. It returns 2 of the 6 key fields we check: Deliverability, Confidence.
Half of the 1,712 plans we rank by price cost $2.632 per 1,000 or less. This plan costs less than 12% of the 1,712 plans.
The cheapest plan we rank by price is [treg, top-up from $10](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/treg/top-up-from-10/llms.txt), at $0.00 per 1,000.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/amazon-ses/pay-as-you-go
- [Best email verification API in 2026](https://datacircle.dev/best-email-verification-api.txt)
- Get it: https://aws.amazon.com/ses/pricing/
- Its API docs: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/ses/latest/APIReference-V2/API_GetEmailAddressInsights.html
- Sold by: Amazon SES (https://aws.amazon.com/ses/)
- Checked: 2026-10-25

## In the answer

- Completeness: 33%
- Deliverability: ✓
- Confidence: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000: $10.00
- Billing: pay as you go

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Per: call
- Also pays for: nothing else

## In their words

- Their pitch: API validation allows you to validate individual email addresses through API calls, providing immediate feedback about address validity, deliverability, and risk factors. This feature is designed for validating addresses at the point of collection, such as during user registration, subscription forms, or any other scenario where you need timely validation results.

## Data

- Freshness: live
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: You are responsible for Your Content. You will ensure that Your Content and your and End Users’ use of Your Content or the Services will not violate any of the Policies or any applicable law. [...] “Your Content” means Content that you or any End User transfers to us for processing, storage or hosting by the Services in connection with your AWS account and any computational results that you or any End User derive from the foregoing through their use of the Services. [...] Neither you nor any End User will use the AWS Content or Services in any manner or for any purpose other than as expressly permitted by this Agreement. Neither you nor any End User will, or will attempt to [...] (b) access or use the Services or AWS Content in a way intended to avoid incurring fees or exceeding usage limits or quotas, or (c) resell the Services or AWS Content. [...] You may perform benchmarks or comparative tests or evaluations (each, a “Benchmark”) of the Services. If you perform or disclose, or direct or permit any third party to perform or disclose, any Benchmark of any of the Services, you (i) will include in any disclosure, and will disclose to us, all information necessary to replicate such Benchmark, and (ii) agree that we may perform and disclose the results of Benchmarks of your products or services, irrespective of any restrictions on Benchmarks in the terms governing your products or services.

## Plan

- Pay: monthly

## Rate limit

- Per second: 1
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: EmailAddress
- Method: POST
- Path: /v2/email/email-address-insights/

## About the plan

- Plan: À la carte pricing
- Who can get it: anyone with an AWS account

## The 8 fields the plan's answer can hold

is valid, has valid syntax, has valid DNS records, mailbox exists, is role address, is disposable, is random input, confidence verdict

## Amazon SES's plans (3)

- [Amazon SES, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/amazon-ses/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt): $10.00 per 1,000, 33% complete, live
- [Amazon SES, $105 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/amazon-ses/105-monthly/llms.txt): $42.00 per 1,000, 33% complete, live
- [Amazon SES, $500 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/amazon-ses/500-monthly/llms.txt): $100.00 per 1,000, 33% complete, live

## Amazon SES's calls (1)

- `POST /v2/email/email-address-insights/`: [Amazon SES, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/amazon-ses/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)

## Amazon SES's APIs (1)

- [Amazon SES: email verification API pricing, 3 plans](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/amazon-ses/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)

## Amazon SES: email verification API alternatives

- [Kickbox, $5 pack, 500 verifications, GET /verify](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/kickbox/5-pack-500-verifications-get-verify/llms.txt): $10.00 per 1,000, 67% complete, live
- [lemlist, $20 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/lemlist/20-monthly/llms.txt): $10.00 per 1,000, 33% complete, live
- [MailerCheck, top-up from $10, Pay as you go, 1,000 credits, POST /check/single](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/mailercheck/top-up-from-10-pay-as-you-go-1000-credits-post-check-single/llms.txt): $10.00 per 1,000, 17% complete, live
- [MailerSend, top-up from $10, 1K - 5K credits, POST /email-verification/verify](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/mailersend/top-up-from-10-1k-5k-credits-post-email-verification-verify/llms.txt): $10.00 per 1,000, 17% complete, live

## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-10-25.

- https://aws.amazon.com/agreement/
- https://aws.amazon.com/service-terms/
- https://aws.amazon.com/ses/pricing/
- https://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/ses.html
- https://docs.aws.amazon.com/ses/latest/APIReference-V2/API_EmailAddressInsightsMailboxEvaluations.html
- https://docs.aws.amazon.com/ses/latest/APIReference-V2/API_EmailAddressInsightsVerdict.html
- https://docs.aws.amazon.com/ses/latest/APIReference-V2/API_GetEmailAddressInsights.html
- https://docs.aws.amazon.com/ses/latest/APIReference-V2/API_MailboxValidation.html
- https://docs.aws.amazon.com/ses/latest/dg/email-validation-api.html
- https://docs.aws.amazon.com/ses/latest/dg/email-validation.html
- https://docs.aws.amazon.com/ses/latest/dg/quotas.html